Simply put, Monica was born to write. She was also born to wander. She combines both by exploring new places and writing about them. Monica&#8217;s business background is in travel with more than 20 years experience as a reservationist, trainer, manager, copy editor and copywriter. She has composed training manuals, brochures and copy for online travel sites. Monica also has an interest in the ...
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Specialties

Monica can write copy suitable for an educational text or just as easily get into travel mode and describe a locale in such a fashion that you just can’t wait to get there. Wedding vows, love letters, sensuous poetry, romantic text, fiction, journalistic pieces, travel reviews, op-ed pieces are all offered.

Interests

Monica drives an RV. In 2008 she drove across Canada and the United States and wrote a book about the trip that is easy enough for children to read. Monica’s dream is to not only get this book off the ground but to take some of her funny poems, illustrate them and turn them into children’s books. Some people think that books are going the way of the dinosaurs, but not Monica. Sitting next to a child, turning real pages and reading text from those pages is a bonding experience. She wants to help with that bonding, and make children and adults laugh. Other interests include the theatre, movies, cats, dogs, all animals in general, all things Hawaiian, history, anthropology, Picasso, cartooning, different types of painting, photography and philosophy.

Education

Career Com School of Business
4/1/1987 – 6/1/1989
Travel and Tourism, Business Management,
AA Travel and Tourism

Honors and Awards

Playwrite/Production Appreciation

Monica received an appreciation award for the production and co-direction of two plays. "Under the Greasepaint " was her own creation and "Online" was co-written with another author.

President's Club

Monica received the President's Club award from Classic Custom Vacations for excelling in sales volume and quality. She had quite a following of travel agents that worked with her specifically.
The reward included an all expense paid trip to Hawaii, one of her specialty destinations.

Experience Summary

Projects by Industry

Travel

Experience
In addition to the hotel/RV articles, Monica has written destination pieces for Hawaii, the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. She has travel articles on sites such as Bonsai Ireland, USAToday.com and Livestrong.com. She also acted as a writer and managing country editor for an online travel guide service based in England, and was the in-house writer/editor for a leading boutique hotel site in British Columbia.

Outdoor/Recreation

Experience
Monica is an avid RVer and writes articles on camping, where to find RV campgrounds, National Parks and RV care and function.

Hospitality

Experience
Monica has more than 20 years experience in the hospitality industry. Her articles have covered locales across the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and beyond. She holds Destination Specialist Certificates for all of the Hawaiian Islands and has both lived and worked on the various islands.
Monica is well traveled, both abroad and within the United States. She also travels in an RV part of the year, producing articles on camping, RV parks and general destination information.

Humor

Experience
Writing is Monica's passion. Creating humor makes it all that much sweeter. She has scores of flippant poems under her belt, three plays, two of which have been performed on stage, and a host of other projects in the works.
Monica has done quite a bit of ghostwriting, and because of confidentiality agreements cannot get specific about what, when and where. One client created an entire persona for Monica after the first article she submitted and it turned into a series.

Science

Experience
Monica has published articles on dinosaurs, pre-historic plants, geology, botany, marine science, volcanoes and other wonders of the natural world.

Garden

Experience
Monica has written articles on everything from plant classification to photosynthesis. Some of her work has to do botany in the modern world, while other articles explore plants found during time of the dinosaurs. Other pieces take on a more humorous bent. She is also a guest writer on Bonsai Ireland where she explores the different types of Japanese gardens found around the world.

Projects By Asset Type

Article

ExperienceMonica has clients around the globe. She has over 1,000 articles written under her name and at least that many ghostwritten.

Copywriting

ExperienceMonica provides copy for a number of online and brick-and-mortar clients. Most of it is ghostwritten in fields such as travel, real estate, clothing and toys.

Press Release

ExperiencePress releases and advertising are part of Monica's work promoting plays for the local theatre group. This is pro-bono work, so she can't count them as paid work. She has also written speeches as a ghostwriter, but because of confidentiality issues cannot name the clients.

Newsletter Content

ExperienceMonica created content for travel newsletters while working with a major travel firm and while serving as an inhouse editor at a bed and breakfast reservation service. Her experience extends to the theater arts where she regularly promoted musicals, dramas and comedic productions.

Projects by Writing Style

Journalistic

ExperienceMost of these are travel destination pieces with a bit of natural history and the sciences thrown in.

Promotional

ExperienceMonivs was an inhouse marketer with a wholesale travel firm and wrote copy for brochures, ads and online promotions. She was also the in-house writer for a bed and breakfast travel outfiit in Victoria, British Columbia and wrote the promotional text for their entire website.

Conversational

ExperienceMonica's style is basically conversational. She makes things interesting, easy to understand and fun to read.

Humorous

ExperienceHumor Monica's passion and she uses it when appropriate. Plays, poetry, stories, she's done them all.

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